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W. H. HICKS.

SNOW SHOVEL. l 110.342,961. Patented June 1, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo WILLIAM H. HICKS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH SCHMITT, OF SAME PLACE.

SNOW-SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part o f Letters Patent No. 342,961, dated June 1, 1886.

Application filed August Q7, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. IIIoIIs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Snow-Shovels, of which the following is a.

specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in shovels for removing snow and ice which are protected from too rapid wear or easy breakage by metallic strips or shoes attached to their forward or cutting edges; and the object of my improvement is to provide said implements with an improved strip or shoe that will very greatly facilitate the removal of snow and ice when densely packed. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a top view of a shovel with my improved strip or shoe attached. Fig. 2 isa sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a top view of my improved strip or shoe.

Similall letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The shovels now in use for removing snow and ice are usually made with wooden blades and handles, and have their front or cutting edges protected with metallic strips or shoes, to prevent as far as possible the blades from splitting or rapid wear. These st-rips or shoes have been heretofore constructed with smooth and unbroken front or cutting edges, and shovels thus made are with ditticulty forced into snow or ice when compact, as will be the case when the snow is trodden underl'oot for any length of time.

My invention is designed to make the penetration of the shovel-blade into the snow or Serial No. 175,414. (No model.)

ice when compacted by any means more easy, and the breaking up and removal of snow or ice more readily done, by using stripsl or shoes constructed with serrated or broken edges so constructed as to form a series of cuttingedges or plows, which will readily enter into and break up compact snow and ice.

shovel I make the shovel blades and handles of wood, and in the usual manner, and as is shown in Figs. l and 2 of the drawings.

My strip or shoe I make, preferably, of cast-- iron, as a cheap mode of construction, inA

v In the construction of my improved snow- Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a wooden shovelblade, of a metallic shoe or strip made with a serrated or uneven front or cutting surface and formed to tit against the front end and bottom of said blade, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM H. HICKS. Witnesses:

J oHN W. CHAMBERs, CHAs'. WAGER HULL. 

